First a terminology question:
What do you call the direction a boat/plane is pointed?
Yeah it is a silly nit, but I am documenting a design and people will pick nits. A simple example is a boat crossing a river. For simplicity, consider the river flowing from N to S and boat crossing from W to E. So the bearing/heading is E. But if point the boat due E you will go SE, so you have to point the boat NE. When I learned to kayak, this was called ferrying and the angle was referred to as "set", but I hate using such an overloaded term.